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Happy Full Rose Moon

I love the full moon. I always try to get outdoors for a bit and gaze up at it, so I especially love it during the warm months when I can do it comfortably and maybe build a nice fire. (Although Ihave been known tohunker down in my parka and mittens to look up at […]

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How Game of Thrones was sold

I have my issues with Game of Thrones (rape scenes, anyone?) but there’s no denying that it’s a cultural juggernaut. I’m always fascinated by how books that are now huge hits first got their start. When George R.R. Martin pitched GOT, he was a not-so-successful writer. GOT was his fourth book. Below is the actual […]

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Full of summer

My kids went to the town pool for the first time last weekend… a sure sign of summer. This weekend, I raided the local nursery like mad, crowding my steps with plants that need to find permanent homes… hydrangeas, gerbera daisies, sweet potato vines, hot pink petunias, colorful coleus and herbs of all types (I […]

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The edge and the end

I walked up to the edge, still amazed that it was so easy to get there. For years it has felt like some impossible mystery. Something I had to crack but couldn’t. Suddenly, up close and personal, there it was: banal. Easy to get. Changing nothing, not the wave of a magic wand at all. […]

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Merchandising

My children should be fruit inspectors, because the instant any produceshows the slightest blemish, they refuse to eat it. It mayhave just come in through the door, but if they perceive it as less than straight-from-the-tree, it’s toast. I had a bag full of perfectly lovely Granny Smith apples in the fruit drawer, sitting untouched. […]

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Loving life

Squeezing out one last post before I get on a plane later this morning. Yesterday I was delighted to read the news that the legislature of Nebraska passed a law banning the death penalty, overriding a veto from the state’s conservative government. It made news, first and foremost, due to the fact that it was […]

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A love that will not be contained

I have a thing for container gardening. For all gardening, really, but there’s just something about creating a whole self-contained garden in a beautiful pot that makes me all giddy inside. This morning, the angel on my shoulder told me I should get to my computer right away after dropping off my kids so that […]

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Cut them off

It’s always interesting to me when I have a connection (even if tenuous) to something that’s going on in the news. This week, I’m traveling to Ohio to a homeschooling convention for work. I just found out that Josh Duggar was supposed to give a speech there but has just canceled his appearance due to […]

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A favorite quote

Sometimes old lines from my favorite movies start running through my head and won’t stop (you can imagine how much fun it is to be me). This is from Legends of the Fall, one of the movies that best encapsulates my thoughts on love: it’s impossible and will only lead to disaster but we can’t […]

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Everything evolves

Two nights ago, the police chief from my small town sent out an email to our town distribution list that there had been a bomb threat issued to the Pizza Hut in the next town over. Although it’s technically in another town and behind a tall fence and some trees, it’s just up the hill […]

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